"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait dernièrement que :
are you serious or just on drugs ? > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:17:28AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>>> Nothing in the tarball mentiones any opensource license. If vmware is >> >> please read this sentence again. Just because somethings source is available >> doesn't mean it's opensource. >> > > Sure it is! It just isn't the GNU flavor of open source. It's likely > that it's even "compatible" as long as it's not more restrictive > than GNU. > > Often the "GNU protestants" are rejecting perfectly good work because > they have adopted a highly restrictive religion, having been taught > that it is the true meaning of freedom. Marx would be so proud! > > Wonderful thing about published private works, i.e., proprietary > source-code, is that you can use it as a reference and write your > own version(s). Since it's published, you don't need "clean-room" > techniques. You just can't grab portions "whole cloth" and paste > them into your source. > > When your driver, probably with improvements, is finished it > is normal, but not necessary to provide some attribution in the > source such as "Adapted from xxx.yyy.zzz" as a public "thank you". > >>>> actually using an opensource license please tell them to mention that >>>> license and remove the propritary code markers. >>> >>> It's not opensource, but "proprietary and S_IRUGO". Though, the world won't >>> fall down instantly if you change something [e.g. bugfix] and redistribute >>> (with all the copyright stuff intact, and for non-profit) >> > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13 on an i686 machine (5589.54 BogoMips). > Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. > . > I apologize for the following. I tried to kill it with the above dot : > > **************************************************************** > The information transmitted in this message is confidential and may be > privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of this > information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Analogic > Corporation immediately - by replying to this message or by sending an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and destroy all copies of this information, including > any attachments, without reading or disclosing them. > > Thank you. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- No fortunes found - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
